Comments on: BNP-d Off http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/bnp-d-off/ Guardian Student Publication of the Year 2011-12 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/bnp-d-off/#comment-75 Steven Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:23:33 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=779#comment-75 While I, also, support his anti-BNP action is he not being undemocratic? "undermine the mandate of the elected BNP MEP." Isn't trying to undermine an elected offical undemocratic? While I, also, support his anti-BNP action is he not being undemocratic?

“undermine the mandate of the elected BNP MEP.” Isn’t trying to undermine an elected offical undemocratic?

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]]> By: Ralph Buckle http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/bnp-d-off/#comment-33 Ralph Buckle Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:26:04 +0000 http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/?p=779#comment-33 While I support the relative sensibility of this campaign (compared to hypocritical, equally fascist attempts to ban the party) it still does not seem to strike at the heart of the issue. The BNP actually lost about 6,000 votes since 2004. It was the fall in turnout that handed them a seat. Rather than trying to reduce the 120,000 who voted for them it is surely an equally important (and arguably easier) task to reduce the 2.5m who didn't vote. I am ashamed that this region elected a BNP MEP but I am also ashamed that less than a third of the Yorkshire electorate actually bothered to vote. While I support the relative sensibility of this campaign (compared to hypocritical, equally fascist attempts to ban the party) it still does not seem to strike at the heart of the issue.

The BNP actually lost about 6,000 votes since 2004. It was the fall in turnout that handed them a seat. Rather than trying to reduce the 120,000 who voted for them it is surely an equally important (and arguably easier) task to reduce the 2.5m who didn’t vote.

I am ashamed that this region elected a BNP MEP but I am also ashamed that less than a third of the Yorkshire electorate actually bothered to vote.

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